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Sentence Examples The other tabloids will gleefully join in, in a frenzy of self-righteous hypocrisy. Even more infuriating are the self-righteous hypocrites who claim to speak for a superior moral majority. It's a shrill, macho, fatuously self-righteous action movie about a wholesome superstar called Bo persecuted by paparazzi. Then there's the bad, bad kind, where one is blatantly rude, pompous and self-righteous about what they do not know. I think all this self-righteous morality is just jealousy with a halo and hypocrisy. Lincoln was a man of moral purpose who never allowed himself to become self-righteous about his morality. Is it any wonder I am infuriated by smug, self-righteous politicians who know nothing about country life yet want to abolish hunting with hounds? The tone is superior and self-righteous, but there is some truth to what Wills was saying. You spend lots of time being snug and smug in the spa, then feel very self-righteous when you venture out into the cold. This sort of smug, self-righteous moralising is exactly what the original American student was speaking out against. Should we allow our cultural heritage to be hijacked by a handful of self-righteous pedagogical censors? This should not reinforce any smug, self-righteous complacency on the part of mainline churches. We'd give them the belt, but their self-righteous indignation is cloying. We are getting too self-righteous and smug in our self-importance. What's with all this self-righteous indignation about reality television? He sighed, slightly relieved to have escaped their self-righteous wrath, but also a bit discomposed. He is positively glowing with self-righteous zeal beside his equally sober betrothed. Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct. For these self-righteous and thin-skinned folks, there are apparently limits to the liberal virtue of tolerance. In my experience, moral outrage all too quickly becomes self-righteous authoritarianism. Show More Sentences She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain. Such judgmental questions sound like that arch-conservative self-righteous man who every young woman in the vicinity knows is a groping ogler. Doubtless your sisters-in-law will think you a patronising, self-righteous old bag, but you can't have it all ways. Allow me to say that some of us are tired of listening to a kind of self-righteous discourse about self-defence. The member opposite, however, would rather be self-righteous in being against. At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces. But these priests were so self-righteous that they wouldn't contaminate themselves with blood money. One may detect a tone of self-righteous bigotry and decry it, as one may regret some of Paul's vaingloriousness. Suffice to say I am suspicious of the self-righteous and high-minded motives you gave for pursuing this line of attack. History is littered with the debris of self-righteous, intolerant, xenophobic, rabble-rousing ideologies. But fortunately for my self-righteous and judgemental streak, I can't afford to indulge in fashion. I will never forget how I felt that day or how I almost let a self-righteous, judgmental pharmacist change my life. No, this isn't some self-righteous attempt to point fingers or be judgmental. Lest I be further accused of being sanctimonious or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation. How dare a midwife behave in such a sanctimonious and self-righteous manner. Those anxious to shout corruption either have an axe to grind or are self-righteous types. They're self-righteous librarians drunk on the power of process and convinced of the virtue of martyrdom. Accompanying this disdain for people is a self-righteous delusion that they alone are saving the planet with their steady diet of self-denial. We have now been subjected to three biased reports over the past three weeks and several self-righteous letters from family and supporters of these boys. I became a self-righteous bigot as the hatred in my heart grew. Show More Sentences Atrocities are happening all over the world due to the self-righteous, self-seeking gratification of particular groups. True, it rolls mellifluously off the tongue and hangs in the air like an echo from a bell or the sonorous tones of a self-righteous preacher. The licensed trade are self-righteous, self-obsessed and selfish in their opposition to a ban. He plays the splendidly repressed and self-righteous Octavius Caesar, miserably uncomfortable when forced to drink and engage in swordplay. Or would they rather emotionally identify with the uncool, harrumphing, self-righteous crowd, who just don't get it? We are a straightforward and self-righteous people, so we are rather good at viciousness, but lacking in irony. There will be self-righteous demands for vegetarian vol-au-vents made from people wearing fur coats made from a Siberian Tiger. Ron Paul is self-limiting, Newt Gingrich is self-aggrandizing, and Rick Santorum is self-righteous. Did God call those who were self-righteous and who seemed just fine? Such an exercise is in the end far more productive than having arrogant, self-righteous, genuinely well intentioned, biased or badly informed politicians forcing their will upon the people. Maria Minna: And self-righteous, I am sorry, but the facts are these. But she couldn't, and I just want to tell her that I think she is too self-righteous and moralizing and someday when she grows up a bit, she might understand. When they don't feel secure or hold too steadfastly to beliefs, they can be obstinate, super conservative and self-righteous. They slink off in their self-righteous hardness of heart, admitting nothing and seeking no pardon. This being a manifesto, there are a few moments when almond sounds like a self-righteous crank. The tape with the self-righteous denunciations has been taken off the reel while the new tape, full of self-righteous media navel-gazing, is cued up. So she had a big blow-up with her father and was self-righteous that he should think that she would not pretend to go to church, and all this sort of thing. He is manipulative, smug, and self-righteous. She can be extraordinarily self-righteous. Within this group were some of the most provocative online communicators I have ever met, ranging from the hilariously lewd to the buttoned-up and implacably self-righteous. Show More Sentences And sicker of politicians and the media stoking the fires of self-righteous nationalism. At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so screamingly hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces. Nor should the irony of this be overlooked, given Hanson's stridently self-righteous defense of free speech in the face of repressive political correctness. A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site. He was paranoid, obsessive, perfectionist, thin-skinned and self-righteous, and his diary is the long story of a man going mad and taking forty years over it. And my problem with those on the edges of politics, both on the far right and far left, is the self-righteous certainty that their view should be my view. I am certainly not suggesting that the self-righteous authoritarianism of this government places it on the same level as the Third Reich. It is indeed a long, sad chapter in the history of this Parliament when we look at the incredible and self-righteous hypocrisy of the Conservatives. Convinced of the moral rectitude of its principled position, a self-righteous country can wreck the prospect of a multilateral treaty. Only the Liberals, and we have seen it again this morning, have the nerve to drag out their past failures to act for ordinary Canadians rather than corporations and get self-righteous about it at the same time. For instance, it follows from this rigorism of self-righteous fanatics that it must be also a mortal sin to hold public office. Getting self-righteous certainly won't make the crisis disappear, and Merkel would undoubtedly be measured against her own words in the future if she chose them rashly. To put it less charitably, he was grandiloquent, tempestuous, self-righteous, and stubborn to the point of pigheadedness. It pained Kennedy to see so much resistance, especially among bishops sheltered in a self-righteous clericalism he deplored. Associating himself with the remarks made by the representative of Singapore, he regretted that the Third Committee had become a self-righteous body committed to recrimination and unwilling to tolerate any dissent. Band Aid was all smuggery aid was all smuggery and naked ambitionnaked ambition and self-righteous patting on backs. It is not surprising that the nineteen-sixties, in her novel, figure as a time of self-righteous posturing, relieved mainly by naïveté and ineffectuality. And in a fading corner of their cultural memory, haunted by self-righteous but upstanding Victorians such as Harris, is perhaps a small feeling that the creators of cricket should hold India to a higher standard. Silence and Obedience to 'the still small voice within', are drowned out in the cacophony of expressions of immature individualism, wrapping themselves in the bigotry of highly politicized self-righteous compassion. For some reason, though, the same self-righteous sportswriters who throw spitballs at baseball players rum their heads when it comes to the gridiron. Show More Sentences Hence, no one, not even the normally certain and self-righteous sermonizers Simon Cary and Senior Pulliam, seems to be able to decide on the meaning of recent events. Examples from Classical Literature The latter is often accompanied by a self-righteous conviction that it is a virtue. I am always nervous when I meet these self-righteous people. How full of self-love are the self-righteous, and how void of the love of God! This could be when your pride must win, You jump on your high horse in a self-righteous way, And think there is nothing more to say. Why no wall to wall coverage, universal condemnations or self-righteous political speeches? To the proud and self-righteous it shows the way of renewal. I challenge anyone to find anything I've said in the last 10 years that's self-righteous or moralising. Find more words! 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